Fortran in the TIOBE Top 10

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There’s a long-running thread about it here on the forum, but yeah! This comeback is a good thing, too. Goes to show that in the end, people stick with the tools that get work done. Just like a friend of mine who needed to process some business records, and after looking at some modern solutions he just got himself a Cobol compiler and used the language he already knew well. And I taught myself Fortran just last month (then joined this forum) because it works for me. It’s that simple. Never mind that scientific computing – in particular data science – continues to grow, and a rising tide lifts all boats.

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